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We ? We the users have 0 say into what the web looks like, where it is heading, how it works and how it is financed. Indeed capitalism, through for-profit compa
by rakoo 3y ago
We ? We the users have 0 say into what the web looks like, where it is heading, how it works and how it is financed. Indeed capitalism, through for-profit companies, decides why list of bookmarks are not sufficient anymore, why we need to fill pages upon pages of artificially generated crap, why strong superficial emotional reactions are more valued than thought-out reflexions, why instant comment is better than slow analysis. It's all about monetizing content, monetizing reactions, monetizing everything. We don't create to pay for the infrastructure, we are milked for personal profit. Not our profit. We haven't discussed at all how we want to share content.
Doing list of bookmarks is our way to organize ourselves. Always has been, always will be. Except now we know why we have to do it, compared to times before where monetization was an attractive light that we didn't know was a trap.
SEO won't work because we don't care about SEO. We care about personal touch, about lightweightness, about sustainability; none of those are provided by ad-based business because none of those are provided by capitalism, by construction. It's not about being the biggest, it's about being ours.